ABSTRACT
ISSICEU, a big research project on the Caucasus supported by the 7th European Framework Program, conducted a short questionnaire for its research participants on political space and statehood as concept for Caucasus research. Territorial integrity is a critical element of post-Soviet national identities because titular ethnic groups believe that all the territory that they inherited from the Soviet Union belongs to them, regardless of its ethnic structure. The internationalization of science increases cooperation among scholars on joint projects, like in case of the ISSICEU project, that reunites Western European and Caucasian experts. Western academic hegemony is certainly partly based on much better funding, an overwhelming superiority in the scope of research, and domination in international scientific associations. The language of academic publications directly affects contacts between scholars and civil society. Of course, the role of English as the language of international communication and the dominance of the Western, particularly of the Anglo-Saxon, academic community in contemporary research is a fact.
